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Cal Poly’s Women in Business Club, known as “WIB,” held their eighth annual Defining her Future Conference on Friday, Mar. 3.

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On Saturday, March 5, Her Campus Cal Poly hosted their annual craft sale. The sale was from 12 to 3 PM in the backyard of a house on Hope Street.

At 6:45 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the Cal Poly Recreation Center, studio one spin room, fills up with 34 eager students, staff, and locals ready for a ride. Barb LeMoine, the spin instructor for the Breakaway Spin class, finds her early morning classes so special.

The Cal Poly Chinese Student Association or CSA Lion Dance team has been one of the longest continuously student run organizations on campus, being active for over fifty years. LDT routinely performs for local schools, businesses, and events such as Illuminate dance and Culturefest.

Cal Poly’s Black Student Union hosted their first annual “The Vibe” Open Mic and Poetry Slam on February 25th as a culmination of Black History Month. The BSU put on the event with the help of the Black Faculty and Staff Association, the Black Academic Excellence Center, and the Office of University Diversity and Inclusion.

The Cal Poly Creamery is home to an ice cream drive-thru. Students and community members can stop by from 12-4 p.m. on Fridays to purchase a pint of ice cream, a scoop and/or cheese.

Central Coast Women for Fisheries, or CCWF, is a non-profit organization in Morro Bay founded in 2006 by women within the commercial fishing industry, including female fishermen, boat captains, and the wives of fishermen.

A Cal Poly club brought in local jewelry makers to help students learn this craft. This club, Fashion and Student Trends, known as FAST, held this jewelry making workshop on Feb. 22.

From the moment the music began blaring through the speakers, the crowd was radiating with energy at SLO Brew Rock on the night of February 5. Pancho and the Wizards, a local band from San Luis Obispo, was the first of three bands to take the stage for a show characterized by heavy, fast-paced and energized psych rock. The band began their first song, and the crowd moved away from the center of th...

Since Sensorio’s opening in 2019, half a million guests from 70 different countries have attended the exhibit, according to Sensorio’s press release.

Mustang Lanes, located in the University Union, is the only bowling alley in the city of San Luis Obispo. It’s also home to a bowling class offered by the Kinesiology Department that Cal Poly students can take for one unit of course credit. Several sections of KINE 109 are offered each quarter and meet twice a week for fifty minutes at a time.

This story does not reflect the views of Cal Poly ASI. On Jan. 30, Campus Dining hosted an open forum to discuss issues such as the rising costs of food and the sustainability of their packaging.

On Saturday, Feb. 18, Cal Poly announced the beginning of construction for the Comerford Tennis Pavilion at a groundbreaking event. The Comerford Tennis Pavilion is a new tennis complex with locker rooms for the athletes, outdoor seating for spectators, and a nutrition hub.

 Mental health — it can be hard to maintain for many college students when dealing with a full-time schedule. Yet, it’s proving to be a silent, ever-growing issue, especially within one of the most rigorous programs at Cal Poly: the College of Engineering.

Cal Poly’s dance program, Orchesis Dance Company, had their winter performance of a routine called “Falling Forward” on January 20-21 and 26-28. “We had auditions the very first week of school,” said psychology third-year Grace Schweitzer. “We had Tuesday night info meeting of the first week, Thursday night of the first week was auditions and starting that Monday, we started rehearsing.”

San Luis Obispo is becoming a hub for standup comedians. With bigger name comedians such as Trevor Wallace and Bert Kreischer performing, as well as locals and students tapping in, the scene has taken off in the area.

The World Surf League’s SLO CAL open returned to Pismo beach in January for a week-long competition open to the public. This was the first edition of this year’s SLO CAL open, with the second competition returning to Morro Bay from Feb. 23-26. Surfers from all around the world came to compete in the men and women’s junior and qualifying series categories.

In 2022, 39% of the Cal Poly community experienced low or very low food security, according to data collected by the American College Health Association.

Fall class of English 388, Cal Poly’s poetry writing class, put together a poetry reading at a satellite of love on Saturday, Feb. 3. Cal Poly English professor, Leslie St. John, wanted students to get experience outside the classroom.

Cal Poly’s Greek honors society, Order of Omega, has started recruitment for the 2023 class. Order of Omega joins together members of all Greek life fraternity and sorority chapters at Cal Poly and works to build leadership, scholarship, and service among its members.

The Cal Poly Theater and Dance department has received new technology and machineries to improve their productions, which includes an embroidery machine, a 3D printer, and a CNC machine.